The human species began as the hybrid offspring of a male pig and a female chimpanzee, a leading geneticist has suggested.The startling claim has been made by Eugene McCarthy, of the University of Georgia, who is also one of the worlds leading authorities on hybridisation in animals.He points out that while humans have many features in common with chimps, we also have a large number of distinguishing characteristics not found in any other primates.

The origin of the species? A remarkable new theory advanced by a leading geneticist suggests that human beings may have originally emerged as the hybrid offspring of a male pig and a female chimpanzee

Dr McCarthy says these divergent characteristics are most likely the result of a hybrid origin at some point far back in human evolutionary history.What's more, he suggests, there is one animal that has all of the traits which distinguish humans from our primate cousins in the animal kingdom.'What is this other animal that has all these traits?' he asks rhetorically. 'The answer is Sus scrofa, the ordinary pig.'Dr McCarthy elaborates his astonishing hypothesis in an article on Macroevolution.net, a website he curates. He is at pains to point out that that it is merely a hypothesis, but he presents compelling evidence to support it.

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Didge wrote: like the humour in your last part. As to the Daily Mail, maybe this person only saw that it was the Mail that printed this and that the other newspapers just copied the Mail. The fact is it was proposed a while back so you have to wonder why only now the Mail has printed this and made errors about the claimant

Guess they're just trawling for something to put in the paper - even Sky News today interviewed a girl with a baby, doing a feature on how young mums are naming their babies after popular characters on TV. Fascinating stuff eh?

If you want humour, I posted this as a ufo conspiracy on GLP, just to wind up the "creationist" religious nutters.

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